Rufaida al aslamia biography of martin

In the West, everyone knows Florence Nightingale, in many ways the founder of modern nursing. But many centuries earlier, a woman named Rufaida Al-Aslamia introduced nursing to the Muslim world.

She is estimated to have been born in the year 620 — exactly 1,200 years before Florence Nightingale.

Just like Florence Nightingale, who became famous when tending for the wounded during the Crimean War, it was war that brought Al-Aslamia to nursing.

Rufaida al aslamia biography of martin

She had learned many medical skills by assisting her father, who was a famous healer, and she converted to Islam after religion’s “Holy Prophet”, Muhammad, settled in her hometown of Medina. During the early battles of his followers, she provided first aid to injured soldiers, made sure they had drinking water, and arranged shelter from the heat and the desert wind for the wounded and dying.

And just like Nightingale, who trained a team of volunteer nurses, she did not go alone, leading a group of Muslim women to work with her.

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